So a couple months ago I tried to play TS2 on my Windows 10 laptop but the game-play itself was glitchy, walls and objects would disappear for a few seconds when I moved my mouse or turned the camera and it was just hell to play - and I never found a fix for it so I just uninstalled TS2.
Recently I found what looks to be a fix for this specific problem so I reinstalled TS2 from Origin but now I can't even get the game to start at all. I'll click play and absolutely nothing happens besides the 'play' button becoming faded on Origin, it doesn't even show the game is running in my task bar or task manager either. I've tried so many 'fixes' I found on the internet but none of them have worked, including trying to open it in windowed mode, open as administrator or run in an older version of windows.
Does anyone know how to get the game to run? AND for a fix for the glitchy screen problem I mentioned?

Try this first: https://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=610641
And a lot of tips here: https://marasims.tumblr.com/post/17...flash-crash-fix
Some useful tips here as well: https://episims.tumblr.com/post/190...-helped-me-with (not directly for Win10, but there are a few tips if the above topics aren't enough)
And here: http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6881